My baby brother got engaged this weekend!

This is our annual mammoth hunt. It’s the only place you’ll find mammoths anymore.

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Jim Ray, mammoth hunter.

Most days, the Google alert I have set up for my own name yields nothing. Every once in a while, I get a gem like this.

Gawker crowdsource translates a GQ article critical of Putin into Russian

Condé Nast, GQ’s corporate parent, went to fairly extreme lengths to keep the article from showing up in in print outside of the U.S. or on the internet at all. Bravo, Gawker.

Dude, you can’t tell Dad

—Justin Halpern, referring to the eponymous star of the best Twitter account since Fake Sarah Palin, Shit My Dad Says

Put This On: A Web Video Pilot About Dressing Like A Grownup

No lie, I’m excited about this.

Not just because it’s two whipsmart lads dishing on fashion but because it’s none other than Messrs Thorn and Lisagor. For all their talent and brilliance, these two, moreso than most, have a sense of style. These gentlemen, and they are true gentlemen, are comfortable with themselves in a way that most men aspire to be but fail at accomplishing.

No lie, I’m excited about this.

This is damn near perfect. [via the ineffable misseffieb]

From a superficial perspective, my old MBP and new MBP felt exactly the same…same OS, same desktop wallpaper, same Dock, all my same files in their same folders, etc. Same deal with the iPhone except moreso…the iPhone is almost entirely software and that was nearly identical. And re: Snow Leopard, I haven’t noticed any changes at all aside from the aforementioned absent plug-ins. So, just having paid thousands of dollars for new hardware and software, I have what feels like my same old stuff.

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Jason thinks Apple has an upgrade problem and I’m kind of inclined to agree.

On background: I went through almost the exact same set of upgrades recently. I ditched the dulling chrome of my first gen iPhone for the virginal white of a 3GS (with compass!) on the first day the new phones were out. And last week, work finally took back the creaking first gen Intel Macbook Pro I’d been using the past three years for a beefy MBP bursting at the seams with gigahertz, gigabytes and RAM. Migrating my apps and data was flawless, even my preferences copied over intact, thanks to the $100 annual MobileMe tax. I’m still waiting on Snow Leopard, but the upgrade was pretty … boring.

But maybe it’s we power users who have the upgrade problem? Now, it’s all built into the OS and the cloud and the ever increasing size of firewired drives. For the ubernerds, it’s perhaps hard to come to grips with the fact that this is the way computers ought to be for the 99.9% of people who’d rather go outside than spend a weekend stripping down and building up a new computer. Maybe the shiny new is no longer as much an upsell as the awful mundanity of it should just work. Maybe boring is a feature.

iA’s Web Trend Map is quite cool

Aggregates trends, presumably from Twitter, and then visualizes them in a map. I like the combination of macro aggregation and curation from trusted sources.

Figure out what your online revenue potential is and build a newsroom of appropriate size.

—Debunking one of the top ten lies that newspaper execs are telling themselves.

an interesting tidbit about Snow Leopard’s implementation is revealed by early tests. Though Snow Leopard doesn’t seem to enable dual GPUs or on-the-fly GPU switching for machines using the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chipset—a limitation carried over from Leopard—it does appear that the OS can use both as OpenCL resources simultaneously. So even if you have the 9600M GT enabled on your MacBook Pro, if OpenCL code is encountered in an application, Snow Leopard can send that code to be processed by the 16 GPU cores sitting pretty much dormant in the 9400M.

—Pardon this bit of nerdery, but that is pretty damn cool